Beer lover's can-covered house.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

Yo, Adrian!

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.